Rogue Afghan soldier kills two British troops in southern Afghanistan
March 26th, 2012 - 10:54 pm ICT by BNO News
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (BNO NEWS) -- An Afghan soldier opened fire at the entrance to a coalition base in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing two British service members before he was shot ... Read more...
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Army chief’s age plea before Supreme Court Friday
February 9th, 2012 - 7:13 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court will hear Friday a plea from Indian Army chief General V.K. Singh to maintain his birth date as May 10, 1951, instead ... Read more...
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Government rapped over army chief’s age row (Roundup)
February 3rd, 2012 - 9:04 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday rapped the government over the way it has handled army chief General V.K. Singh's age row, saying the entire process ... Read more...
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Supreme Court raps government over army chief’s age row (Third Lead)
February 3rd, 2012 - 7:10 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday rapped the government over the way it has handled army chief Gen. V.K. Singh's age row, saying the entire process ... Read more...
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Apex court questions process on army chief’s age row (Second Lead)
February 3rd, 2012 - 2:54 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) In a setback for the government, the Supreme Court Friday questioned the way it had rejected army chief Gen V.K. Singh's plea that his year ... Read more...
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Army chief meets Pranab, no breakthrough on age row (Lead)
February 3rd, 2012 - 12:18 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) The Indian Army chief, General V.K. Singh Thursday met Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee over the raging age row, a day before the Supreme Court ... Read more...
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Army chief meets Mukherjee amid age row
February 2nd, 2012 - 10:42 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) Indian Army chief General V.K. Singh met Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Thursday, a day before the Supreme Court is likely to take up the ... Read more...
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Antony, V.K. Singh blame army for age row (Roundup)
January 31st, 2012 - 6:33 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 31 (IANS) The Indian Army's administrative wing Tuesday came under attack sharp attack from both Defence Minister A.K. Antony as well as the army chief, Gen V.K. ... Read more...
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Gen Singh also blames army for age row
January 31st, 2012 - 4:22 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 31 (IANS) The Indian Army chief, General V.K. Singh, Tuesday agreed with Defence Minister A.K. Antony that the administrative branch of the force was to blame for ... Read more...
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Antony blames army for chief’s age row (Lead)
January 31st, 2012 - 3:52 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 31 (IANS) Defence Minister A.K. Antony Tuesday blamed the army for the dispute over chief Gen V.K. Singh's age and denied that there was any civil-military confrontation ... Read more...
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Government reiterates order on Army chief’s age issue, to settle case in court (Lead)
January 29th, 2012 - 11:15 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 29 (IANS) The defence ministry said Sunday it would prefer to settle the issue of army chief General V.K. Singh's age in the Supreme Court rather than ... Read more...
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Government to settle army chief age issue in court, not administratively
January 29th, 2012 - 6:25 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 29 (IANS) Scotching rumours that it asked the Indian Army's Adjutant General to correct records of General V.K. Singh's year of birth to 1950 ahead of the ... Read more...
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Government has right to determine tenure: Army chief
January 18th, 2012 - 10:30 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 18 (IANS) Alhough army chief General V.K. Singh has moved the Supreme Court challenging the rejection of his statutory complaint seeking declaration of his date of birth ... Read more...
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No clue when age row will end: Army chief
January 15th, 2012 - 8:47 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) Earlier he was indecisive on what he would do next on his age row, but now Indian Army chief Gen V.K. Singh is unsure when ... Read more...
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Amidst age row, Indian Army chief meets key aides
January 2nd, 2012 - 11:25 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 2 (IANS) Amidst a raging row over his request for reconciling the official records to show his year of birth as 1951 instead of 1950, army ... Read more...
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Ministry rejection of chief’s age plea legally unsound: Army
September 4th, 2011 - 10:40 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 4 (IANS) In the first formal response to the controversy relating to its chief's age, the Indian Army Sunday said the defence ministry's ruling that General V.K. ... Read more...
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Age row: Army chief files statutory complaint
August 29th, 2011 - 7:59 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 29 (IANS) Indian Army Chief General V.K. Singh has filed a statutory complaint with Defence Minister A.K. Antony seeking re-examination of his age issue. The development comes ... Read more...
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More trouble for army’s former military secretary
August 23rd, 2011 - 11:09 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 23 (IANS) The Indian Army's former military secretary Lt. Gen. (retd) Avadesh Prakash may soon face charges under the Official Secrets Act for allegedly removing confidential documents ... Read more...
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Army rejects defence ministry’s order on chief’s age
August 23rd, 2011 - 10:01 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 23 (IANS) Nearly a month after the defence ministry rejected Indian Army chief General V.K. Singh's demand for correcting his birth year from 1950 to 1951, the ... Read more...
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Judge rejects list of Musharraf’s properties
July 10th, 2011 - 6:21 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, July 10 (IANS) A Pakistani court hearing the Benazir Bhutto murder case has rejected the details of the properties and assets of former president Pervez Musharraf - declared ... Read more...
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Antony shies away from army chief’s age controversy
May 20th, 2011 - 3:33 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) The government Friday was still undecided on army chief General V.K. Singh's correct date of birth even after it got legal opinion on the raging ... Read more...
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Army chief’s age: Ball back in defence ministry’s court
May 20th, 2011 - 1:58 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) The confusion regarding the correct age of Indian Army chief General V.K. Singh just got confounded with the country's senior-most legal advisor Thursday recommending that ... Read more...
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Decision on Indian Army chief’s age soon: Antony
April 25th, 2011 - 5:53 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) With a controversy raging over Indian Army chief General V.K. Singh's age, Defence Minister A.K. Antony Monday said the government will soon take a decision ... Read more...
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Apex court stays tribunal’s order on military nurses
September 3rd, 2010 - 11:32 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) The Supreme Court has stayed an Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) verdict directing the central government to treat all the commissioned officers of the Military Nursing Service (MNS) ... Read more...
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Burma’s reclusive, ailing dictator resigns, may become president
August 28th, 2010 - 2:36 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug.28 (ANI): Burma's reclusive and ailing dictator, Than Shwe, has resigned from his military post, exiled Burmese media have reported, paving the way for him to become Burma's president after this ... Read more...
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Permanent commissions for women: Notice issued to Indian Army chief
July 5th, 2010 - 5:29 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 5 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Monday issued notice to Indian Army chief Gen. V.K. Singh for not complying with its March 12 order to grant permanent commissions to ... Read more...
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Procedures violated in ordering my court martial: Avdhesh Prakash
February 25th, 2010 - 10:50 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) Lt. Gen. (retd) Avdhesh Prakash, the former military secretary at army headquarters who has won a temporary reprieve against a court martial ordered against him, alleges that ... Read more...
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Terror infrastructure in Pakistan intact: Indian Army
January 21st, 2010 - 9:50 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) The terror infrastructure in Pakistan is intact though there has been a decline in incursions into Jammu and Kashmir, a top Indian Army officer said Thursday.
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Strict action against generals involved Sukhna case: Army Chief
January 14th, 2010 - 8:55 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Jan 14 (ANI): Army chief General Deepak Kapoor, who is under pressure from all quarters to act against the guilty in the Sukhna land case, has assured of strict action ... Read more...
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Sukhna land scam ‘dented’ army image, admits chief
January 14th, 2010 - 8:55 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) Indian Army chief General Deepak Kapoor Thursday went on the defensive over the land scam in Sukhna Cantonment in West Bengal involving his top generals, including Military ... Read more...
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Army, IGNOU sign MoU to give soldiers’ second career option
September 4th, 2009 - 8:15 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Sep. 4 (ANI): A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between Indian Army and Indira Gandhi National Open University to meet the twin objectives of empowering soldiers educationally and providing ... Read more...
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National Defence Academy & Naval Academy Examination, (II) 2008 Written Result (UPSC)
November 21st, 2008 - 12:50 pm ICT by admin
On the basis of the result of the written part of the National Defence Academy and Naval Academy Examination (II), 2008, held by Union Public Service Commission in August, 2008, candidates with ... Read more...
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Kerala to be headquarters for country’s first amphibious brigade
October 5th, 2008 - 2:55 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 5 (IANS) Kerala is set to be home to the country's first amphibious brigade as officials of the Indian Army are working at full steam to see the project through. ... Read more...
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War decorated soldier woman in beauty battle
July 18th, 2008 - 2:24 pm ICT by IANS
London, July 18 (IANS) Tunbridge Wells regularly keeps a date with history-makers. It was Kapil the Devil in 1983. It is Barbie the Soldier this year. The British town where Kapil Dev ... Read more...
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